More Weapons Confiscated By TSA AT CLT

WFAE | By Gwendolyn Glenn

Published June 1, 2018 at 6:26 PM EDT

Transportation Security Administration officers prevented two passengers from bringing firearms aboard flights at Charlotte Douglas International Airport last week.

One of the firearms was loaded. The weapons were detected by TSA agents in the passengers’ carry-on baggage. According to TSA officials, 26 firearms have been confiscated by agents this year at Charlotte’s airport. A total of 68 were detected last year. Nationwide, just over 100 firearms were confiscated last week—85 were loaded.

Firearms are allowed in carryon luggage on flights, but only if they are declared at ticket counters, unloaded and packed in a locked, hard-sided container. Violators can be fined up to $13 thousand dollars.

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Gwendolyn Glenn

Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

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